This is a project focused on the dying and death issues in 18th-21srt century Romania. Also, this is the official blog of Dying and Death in 18th-21srt century Europe International Conference. The main aim of this blog is to improve and develop death studies in Romania and also to create a network for death scholars and for anyone interested in dying, death and cremation issues.
BE PREPARED TO BE PULVERIZED!

"Our soul is just an urn where we close, once and for all, the ashes of our lost passions !"

31. Evy Johanne Håland (Norway/Greece), When the dead ensure the food: Death and the regeneration of life through festivals, food and social gathering during the ritual year in ancient and modern Greece

55. Zaklina Trajkovska Ancevska., Daniela Tasevska (Macedonia), End of life and palliative care

56. Leaha Mihai (Romania), The Tree of the Dead – a Bridge Between the Worlds. A video-anthropological exploration of a commemoration ritual from Transylvania.

57. Manca Erzetič (Slovenia), Dying And Death At War - Concentration Zone: The Place Of (‘‘Special’’) Dying

58. Carmen Alexandrache (Romania), Death as a Factor of Social Communication Present In the Romanian Countries from the Foreign Travelers’ Perspective

59. Golie Talaie (The Netherlands), Post-Mortem Photography now

60. Malgorzata Zawila (Poland), The „politics of death” and the „religion of Smoleńsk” – new or old phenomena occurring in the media discourse in Poland in one year after the flight crash in Smolensk 2010.

61. Mihai Chiper (Romania), The most famous Romanian affair of honour: Filipescu- Lahovary (1897). The implications of a deadly duel.

62. Noémi Tünde Farkas (Hungary), Thoughts on dying and suicide at the turn of the 18-19th Century

63. Lajos Hodi (Hungary), On Cremation in Hungary of nowadays

64. Ana Maria Roman-Negoi, Ioan Cristinel Roman-Negoi (Romania), The judgment before the Last Judgment. An analysis of the types of resurrected and punished persons during the Last Judgment, as depicted in the Romanian Orthodox Church paintings

65. Václav Grubhoffer (Czech Republic), Medicalization of Death at the Turn of the 18th to 19th Centuries. The moment of Death, apparent Death and Attitudes towards dead Body from the Point of View of the History of Medicine

Also at the conference will attend Marina Sozzi (Italy), University degli Studi Turin, Ariodante Fabretti Foundation, Cosmin Bodrean (Romania), vice president of Amurg. Romanian Cremation Association, manager of “Santul Gheorghe” Cemetery in Hunedoara and Constantin Musescu, editor in chief of “Magazin Funerar” (the only Romanian magazine dedicated to the funerary industry). We invited Mr. Peter Lakatos, member of the Romanian Parliament, to attend at the conference. Mr. Peter Lakatos is the main author of the new law of burials, cemeteries and crematoria in Romania and we do hope he will find time to come to Alba Iulia.

Information:

For your travel plan:

The Conference will officially begin on 29th of September, at 9 a.mThe conference will end on 1st October, after dinner hour (10 p.m.)Please book your flights to Cluj Napoca or Sibiu airport. We will try to collect you from airport by bus but it is possible to not succeed it for all the participants because the large number of them (this is available for foreign participants at the conference). Please inform us, as soon as possible, about your flights sending a mail with these details at mrotar2000@yahoo.com or adriana.teodorescu@gmail.comVery important: there are some low cost flights to Cluj Napoca and Sibiu airport. Please check this information when you will book your flights.If you need extranights please inform us. All the extranights are free as accommodation.

Duration presentations:

20 minutes has been allocated for your presentation followed by 5-7 minutes for questions and answers. Information about the exact program (time-schedule) will follow (probably in August 2011). You can use a PowerPoint presentation.

There will be organized parallel sections at the conference.Official languages of the conference: English and French

Important Dates:

10th of August – deadline for the confirmation of your presence at the conference (mrotar2000@yahoo.com)

13th of October – deadline for sending us your full paper for conference proceedings (the instructions for authors will be send to you by mail in July) (mailto:mrotar2000@yahoo.com)

The costs of accommodation will be covered by the organizers (meals, hotel accommodation, official reception), except for the travel expenses that will have to be covered by the participants themselves.

There is a conference fee: 30 EUR per each accepted paper.This fee is mainly used for publication of the conference proceedings. Also, this fee could be used by organizers for other possible costs of the conference (to cover the costs of your transfer from the airport to Alba Iulia (in case) or the costs of the trip conference – for this reason we require the payment of it before conference).

If you have a companion person attending at our conference that person must pay her/his accommodation, meals and official reception, too. The accommodation, meals, official reception is free just for the participants.

Remember: not all the presentations will be published in the conference proceedings. If your paper will not follow the instructions for authors will not be published in the conference proceedings. Also, the editors of the proceedings have the right to reject some papers from the publication in the conference proceedings if those papers wouldn’t have a fit scientific content.

On the other hand, we will organize for the second time a karaoke party at the conference *optional (at the last edition this was a great success) and also a trip in the second day of the conference in the afternoon.

vineri, 10 iunie 2011

1. We decided to extend with 10 days the deadline for abstract proposals to Dying and Death in 18th-21st century Europe, fourth edition (ABDD04), International Conference, which will be held at "1 Decembrie 1918" University of Alba Iulia, between 29th September and October 1st. Under these conditions, the final deadline for abstract proposals is 20th of June 2011.This extension of the deadline is due to the fact that some our friends and also some researchers required this to us.2. We received until today, 10th of June 2011, abstract proposals for ABDD04 from 19 countries (Turkey, Macedonia, Poland, UK, France, Germany, Sweden, Hungary, Israel, Greece, Italy, Bulgaria, Latvia, Austria, Albania, Norway, Finlaand, Brazil and Romania). This is a very good sign regarding the interest upon our conference.3. The evalution process of abstract proposals is still in progress. I hope at the end of June 2011 I will put on this blog the list of accepted abstracts at our conference. Each researcher who sent us an abstract proposal for conference will receive a notification upon her/his proposal in the next 2 or 3 weeks.4. Many thanks for your interest in our conference! I think ABDD04 will be a succesful scientific event inspiring all the participants. You are welcome to Alba Iulia, Transylvania, Romania!

Is it necessary a Romanian Cremation Society for sustaining and popularization this pracitce of disposal of the body in Romania?

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”Our soul is just an urn where we close, once and for all, the ashes of our lost passions”

Death, a subject which invites reflection and analysis par excellence, through the many mutations it produces, is a particular subject matter, often wrongfully given a secondary place among the scientific research interests. For this reason in particular, death cannot be considered the prerogative of just one science, although some may take a special interest in the topic. We cannot describe, understand, explain or come up with solutions to the reality of death without the joint effort of History, Philosophy, Sociology, Psychology, Medicine or Literature.